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Month: February 2016

Women welcome at a Saudi Arabia Starbucks shop after temporary ban

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- To the Western world, it's a surprising thing to see. Until very recently, one Starbucks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, had a sign with the phrase, "Please no entrance for ladies." The sign went up after a wall segregating families and single people when entering the coffee house fell down. The temporary solution […]
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ISIS, in a First, Says It’s Behind Attack in Capital of Syria

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -GAZIANTEP, Turkey — A car bomb tore up a vegetable market and a police officers’ club in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Tuesday, according to a witness and to regional news reports, striking an area that had been quiet for about two years under a local agreement between the Syrian government and […]
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Hundreds of Yazidi women form an all-female battalion to launch massive assault on Mosul

7 years ago
  By SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE Hundreds of former ISIS sex slaves have joined an all-female battalion to launch a massive assault against their abusers in Iraq. The Yazidi women – who call themselves the 'Force of the Sun Ladies' – have taken up arms in the quest for revenge but also to preserve the […]
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West 'can't fight Isis in Libya without a unity government'

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- Islamic State (Isis) in Libya has become a threat to all of Europe and western military intervention may now be required, but only so long as the Libyans can first form a coherent national government, Sir Peter Ricketts, David Cameron’s former national security adviser, has warned. Ricketts, who has just ended […]
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Layoffs at the PA's Ministry of Religious Affairs – Employees and Imams Affiliated with Hamas Dismissed

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS – By Jasmin Rashid -- According to Palestinian sources in Ramallah, President Mahmoud Abbas instructed the layoffs of employees associated with Hamas from the Charity Committees in the Ministry of Religious Affairs. He also instructed the dismissal of Imams affiliated with Hamas. According to these sources, the instruction is carried out by […]
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Libya banned from UN voting after non-payment of subs

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- Libya has been suspended from voting in the United Nations General Assembly, according to internal documents from the global body. UN Tribune, an independent United Nations monitoring website, said that Libya had now been barred from voting in the General Assembly due arrears that "equal or exceeds the amount of the […]
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Morocco hails Sweden's U-turn on recognising Western Sahara

7 years ago
Morocco has praised Sweden's decision not to recognise Western Sahara as an independent state, following months of diplomatic tensions over the Swedish stance on the disputed territory. "Sweden's decision not to recognise the so-called Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [SADR] complies with international law and is consistent with the UN-brokered political process", Morocco's ministry of foreign […]
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The Rise of “Jihadi Salafism”: From "Ikhwan" to ISIS

7 years ago
The Levant News Exclusive -- By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem* -- The term of “Jihadi Salafism” The Salafist and Wahhabist strains of radical Islam and their differences are worth understanding, as both ideologies have become more influential in the Middle East and North Africa since the Arab Spring revolutions. Salafi jihadism or Jihadist-Salafism is a transnational […]
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Iranian Claims on Supporting Hamas are Lies: Abu Marzook

7 years ago
The Levant News -- Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a senior political member in the Palestinian Resistance Movement “Hamas”, had pounced on Iran regarding their proclamations of supporting Hamas, after cashing them in all as lies, especially those declarations on support being presented post 2009. Abu Marzook’s aversion was recorded over a leaked phone call which […]
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